Seyed Hasnain

Biography

  Ph.D. (JNU, Delhi), D.Sc. (h.c.), D.Med.Sc. (h.c), Former professor at the University of Delhi • National Institute of Immunology (an Institute of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India) Institution builder, policy maker, an administrator and importantly, an active scientist First Director of Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Govt of India and made CDFD a gold standard for DNA based crime investigations in the country As the Vice Chancellor of the prestigious University of Hyderabad, he made it the #1 University of India displacing JNU and DU for which the Prime Minister of India gave a PURSE Award Recipient of many prestigious Awards such as G.D. Birla Award, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, FICCI Award, J.C. Bose National Fellow Award, Ranbaxy Research Award, Goyal Award, Bhasin Award etc At the age of 51, he received the Padma Shri (Civilian Award) from the President of India 3rd Indian (Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, 2009, Dr Amartya Sen, 2010) to receive an Honorary Doctorate from the Queen’s University, UK (member of the prestigious Russell Group of Universities which include Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College etc) International recognitions include the rare Humboldt Research Prize (Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, Germany); the very exclusive Robert Koch Fellowship (the ONLY Indian so far), of the Robert Koch Institute, Berlin etc

Research Interest

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